On 9/17/23 09:56, Storm Dragon via Remind-fans wrote:
I was reading about wxremind, and it says that it will give spoken reminders using festival. It also says it is no longer maintained. I was just wondering, how can I do the same thing just using remind's syntax? I have started off with something extremely simple, my remind file consists of the following: # Reminder to Clock in REM Mon Tue Wed Thu 9:25 MSG "Clock in." How can I make it so that every Monday through Thursday, at 9:25, it either does a notification with notify-send, or speaks with something like spd-say the reminder to "clock in"?
I find espeak easier to use than festival. Less configurable, but easier. The relevant remind command would be something like REM Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri AT 9:25 RUN espeak Log in. Maybe there are more succinct ways to write that time specification. I'm not that good at Remind. I run Remind as remind -z1 ~/.reminders < /dev/null > /dev/null 2>&1 & I haven't used festival in years, so you're on your own. As an aside, I find audible reminders very useful. I wrote a script "say" which calls espeak (and formerly festival) with useful options. Oh, that reminds me, in "say" commented out is this command: # echo "(SayText \"$phrase\") (quit)" | netcat localhost 1314 (Yeah, I'm a digital packrat too.) I don't know what was on port 1314. Probably that's the default listening port for some part of festival. -- 1101000 1110100 1110100 1110000 0111010 0101111 0101111 1110010 1101111 1111001 1100001 1101100 1110100 1111001 0101110 1101101 1101001 1101110 1100101 0101110 1101110 1110101 0111010 0111000 0110001 0101111 _______________________________________________ Remind-fans mailing list [email protected] https://dianne.skoll.ca/mailman/listinfo/remind-fans Remind is at https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/
